Letter: It wouldn't have happened in Sheboygan

To the Chicago Union station thief: "...life is violent and cruel by nature. Life will always be hard, so one might as well enjoy beauty, when he can find it, while he can" (TrueBlood).

And so I enjoyed every beautiful moment of sharing dinner with friends whom I haven't seen in over a year, despite your cruel and violent disregard. I can hope that some well deserving little kid woke up to a new bike Christmas morning courtesy of the thousands of dollars you tried to spend, or that a good laugh was had over my driver's license photo, and maybe you even ordered some vitamins off the website on my neighbor's card. I doubt it.

You are the hard and wicked winds of a hurricane personified. Under the rubble, I found two realizations, precious reminders smiling beneath jagged glass and broken frames. Beauty exists because of ugliness. As you know, I'm from Wisconsin, therefore I will elaborate with a Packer reference. Favre threw that touchdown pass against the Raiders after his father's death because of the hubris and greed we would later see from him in New York and Minnesota. And, I love where I live.

I immediately thought to myself, "This wouldn't have happened in Sheboygan." Case in point, a woman from Sheboygan is vacationing. A salon in Sheboygan receives a phone call that a wallet was found, the only contact information was the salon's card. The salon calls her, confirms the missing wallet, arranges for the two parties to meet and solves the problem. A veritable Sherlock Holmes upon Lake Michigan.

I wasn't so sure about leaving Seattle for Sheboygan, and I was not fully convinced that a little yang was good and necessary for the ying of life. You have reminded me, and that is a beautiful thing.

Leighanne Metter-Jensen

Sheboygan

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Letter: It wouldn't have happened in Sheboygan

To the Chicago Union station thief: '...life is violent and cruel by nature. Life will always be hard, so one might as well enjoy beauty, when he can find it, while he can' (TrueBlood).

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